1. Dates and deadlines:
Tuesday, September 28 - First five sheets (labeled, unmounted) due at the start of lecture
Thursday, October 7 - Exam 1
Know families (lecture and lab), structure and terminology, how to use both Newcomb’s and Magee and Ahles

2. Ranunculaceae
the Buttercup Family

3. Herbs with alternate, palmately veined or divided leaves with
Vegetative Features
Herbs with alternate, palmately
veined or divided leaves with
sheathing leaf bases
Sheathing leaf bases in Caltha
palustris, marsh marigold
Palmately divided
leaf of tall buttercup

4. Reproductive Features
Flowers radially symmetrical
Androecium of many stamens
Gynoecium of many simple pistils

5. Flower parts commonly inserted on an elongate receptacle

6. Gynoecium of many simple pistils
Fruit an achene

7. Other fruit types in the Ranunculaceae ...
Fruit a berry
(doll’s eyes)
Fruit a follicle
(monkshood)

8. Economic importance:
This family is not particularly significant economically, but many
are toxic to both humans and livestock
Goldenseal is much used in herbal medicine
Some are popular ornamentals, e.g., monkshood, clematis,
larkspur
Columbine is the state flower of Colorado

9. Hydrastis canadensis
golden seal

11. Aconitum napellus
monkshood, aconite, or wolfsbane
Poisonous!
Monkshood has a long history of use
as an ornamental, in witchcraft, and
in medicinal botany. The active
component is the alkaloid aconitine.

12. Clematis

13. Japanese anemone

15. BUTTERCUP Family
Ca3-X Co0-A G[1,3,5]
(usually)